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Goodrich, Frances Louisa. Mountain Homespun

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(031013) Goodrich, Frances Louisa. Mountain Homespun. Knoxville, TN: Univ. Of Tennessee Press, 1989. Facsimile repr. Hardcover. Large 8vo. 135 pages. Fine in Fine DJ. B&W Photographs. A facsimile of the original, published in 1931, with a new introuduction by Jan Davidson and twenty-five additional period photographs. An account of one of the earliest programs to revive mountain crafts. The author was educated at the Yale Art School and started out as a religious social worker and was assigned by the Presbyterian Home Missions to Buncombe and Madison counties in North Carolina. Her book tells of the early days of Allanstand Cottage Industries, one of the first of the hadicraft revival programs ISBN: 0870496204 (Hand Weaving, Handicraft, Mountain Whites, Southern States)